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Sep 16 2025 
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian’s Regular Press Conference on September 15, 2025
Xinhua News Agency: The U.S. has asked the G7 and NATO to impose additional tariffs on Chinese imports over China’s purchases of Russian oil to facilitate China’s effort in ending the Russia-Ukraine conflict. What is China’s comment?
Lin Jian: It is fully legitimate and lawful for China to carry out normal economic, trade and energy cooperation… Continue reading
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Sep 11 2025 
Mao Zedong: Father of Chinese Communism and 20th Century’s Most Influential Leader
Jeff J Brown updated the key chapter in his Big Red Book on China, to commemorate the anniversary of Mao Zedong’s death, 9 September 1976. Mao Zedong: Father of Chinese Communism and 20th Century’s Most Influential Leader.
Updated Chapter
Portrait of Chairman Mao, by Ma Jin (1899-1970). Ink and color on paper, undated. The banners hanging from… Continue reading
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Sep 08 2025 
Those kind charity workers in China: They were nabbed hot
China’s Ministry of State Security discloses espionage case involving overseas individuals disguised as charity workers
China’s Ministry of State Security on Tuesday revealed that a foreign organization sent operatives into remote southwestern regions in China disguised as mountaineers and charity workers, where they posed as providing medical aid to gain villagers’ trust and recruit guides to… Continue reading
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Sep 08 2025 
Here Comes China
A few interesting selections from Godfree Roberts’ Newsletter: Here Comes China
Flight test begins of world’s first megawatt-level ‘windmill’ airship, the S1500, with 1MW energy generation, equivalent to a traditional 328-foot (100-meter) wind turbine.
DeepSeek becomes China’s AI model of choice overnight. HarmonyOS update of its AI assistant, Xiaoyi, is bringing deep integration of Deepseek-R1 to all… Continue reading
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Sep 08 2025 
Chinese thinker compares Eastern and Western Thought
From Jeff J Brown
Table of Contents
Essay
English translation
Christians, Teach Yourselves
Now, onto the main text.
1) Truth and Freedom: How to attain? How to… Continue reading -
Sep 06 2025 
Arnaud Bertrand suggests the US is withdrawing from Asia
Boom! This confirms what I’ve been saying for months: the US is, in fact, withdrawing from Asia. The Pentagon’s latest National Defense Strategy – which draft just landed on the Defense Secretary’s desk – is de-prioritizing “deterring China” in favor of focusing on the US homeland and the Western hemisphere (https://politico.com/news/2025/09/05/pentagon-national-defense-strategy-china-homeland-western-hemisphere-00546310).
This is all the… Continue reading
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Sep 04 2025 
Does China Really Deserve to Celebrate WW2 Victory? | China Military Parade
Did the US really help China in the War against Japanese Aggression and World Anti-Fascism, according to Trump’s statement? Who did they help? Nathan Rich, in his usual sarcastic form, tells the historical facts. He weaves his story around an article from Miles Yu for the Hoover Institution. We’re of course dealing with the ‘China… Continue reading
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Sep 03 2025 
Photo Gallery: China Unveils Cutting-Edge Military Technology on 80th Anniversary of WWII Victory cs_opinion_img Beijing hosted a grand parade on September 3, marking 80 years since China’s WWII victory. Here are the highlights of the awe-inspiring advanced weapons on display
Please take a look at this photo album on The China Academy. It is too good to miss, but not easy to embed on our site.
Photo Gallery: China Unveils Cutting-Edge Military Technology on 80th Anniversary of WWII Victory
Beijing hosted a grand parade on September 3, marking 80 years since China’s WWII victory. Here are the… Continue reading
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Sep 02 2025 
2 hours to the military parade in China
Sputnik will run a live feed here:
https://sputnikglobe.com/20250903/live-putin-attends-chinas-victory-day-parade-marking-80-years-since-wwiis-end-1122713617.html
And here is RT, on Telegram: https://t.me/rtnews/109607And on their site: https://www.rt.com/news/623891-putin-xi-china-visit/
There will be a mass of feeds. I will pick up in my morning. Good Night!
Good Morning!
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Sep 02 2025 
Concept Paper on the Global Governance Initiative
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xw/wjbxw/202509/t20250901_11699912.html
I. Background
The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. Eighty years ago, upon deep reflection on the bitter lessons of the two world wars, the international community decided to establish the United Nations, commencing a brand new practice in global governance. Over the past 80 years, the visions and practice of global… Continue reading
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Sep 01 2025 
Full Speech & transcript: Xi Jinping Calls for Fairer Global Governance at 25th SCO Summit in Tianjin
Before playing the video of President Xi’s speech, here are a few quick comments from Pepe Escobar, who views this summit similar to me. This is major and now, with Xi’s clear (I want to say direction) of a new Global Governance, suitable for a MultiPolar world, much mist is dissipating. The new Global Governance… Continue reading
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Aug 28 2025 
Key things to know about SCO Tianjin Summit
Leaders from Asia, Europe and Africa will gather in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin from Aug. 31 to Sept. 1 for the largest-ever Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in history, charting the blueprint for the bloc’s next decade of development.
An interesting statistic is that with the Presidents of China, Vietnam, Laos and Cuba… Continue reading
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Aug 28 2025 
Economy How does China’s system really work? Renowned scholar Zhang Weiwei explains the ‘China model’
How do China’s government, political system, and socialist market economy work? How does it see democracy? Prominent Chinese academic Zhang Weiwei explains in this sit-down interview with Ben Norton.
By Ben Norton on GeopoliticalEconomy.com
Transcript
(Highlights)
ZHANG WEIWEI: From a Chinese point of view, we need to have an overall balance between political power, social power, and the power… Continue reading
